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First impressions (which are often meaningless) possible failing motherboard or PSU. Freezing could be temps but it freezes a but quick for that but its not ruled out. Do you feel confident enough to open the case? If so have a look and see if the Heatsink is blocked with dust. If you can get into safe mode right click my computer select manage and then event viewer have a look for application hangs or hardware issues in system

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I would try this reinstall Daemon Tools then I would download a program called Y.A.S.U this will clock the virtual drives used in Daemon Tools so the securom will not see them. I am guessing that the SPTD driver which is installed with Daemon Tools may be causing this. Y.A.S.U will need to be placed in Daemon Tools directory and run in there and left running Disclaimer Y.A.S.U is not a crack or a bypass for a game it just hides the emulation Daemon Tools installs. Incidentally Daemon Tools has legal uses as a cd burner ect as well as being able to mount iso's which are obtainable legally from MSDN for example although there are a lot of other places. Securom only see's as a threat to itself it does not recognise its legitimate purposes

If you do have the I386 folder you can easily install this from a usb drive as long as your machine is new enough to allow booting from said device http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/50478-post10.html instructions here

clonecd and clonedvd may also flag securom as would any version of alcohol

delivery wont be cheap are you uk and use parcels2go?

I had a feeling I was correct when I first posted that way it just appeared not to be acknowledged as as possible solution till just. Let us know how you get on with your super tech lol ;) the way I told you to deal with your docs would work also

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Ive just downloaded the manual for the Ferrari 1000 series have I got the wrong machine?

ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/ferrari_1000/utilities/Acer%20eRecovery%202.0.2024.zip direct link to the FTP

How big did you say the recovery partition is? have you tried my way? has that failed? A compressed ghost image can be half the size of the installed OS so XP could be as small as 2 gig The acer data is not the recovery partition as I said earlier this will be a hidden partition in neither FAT or NTFS format I believe

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You can zip them up its just more secure than open files. I believe by the evidence in place your system is quite heavily infected do you agree? This being the case I would not have plugged a usb device into this machine as that now appears to be infected. I am edgy because I spose it could be something else but hmmmm. http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/articles-and-tutorials/7028-running-virtual-machine.html this is my guide to what a virtual machine is. If this was my computer I would just be repartitioning reformatting the hard drive and starting again but if you do want to save your data my way is the safest to ensure you do not end up in the same boat later

I would rar the files burn to dvd if possible reformat and check the files in a virtual machine leaving them well out of the way of your main operating system

well that really sounds dodgy. I dont think you can save anything as the system definitely appears to be badly infected and you will just spread it

Have you tried my way yet?

not all sky 478 boards are equal there were a fair few max bus speed versions 400 mhz 533 mhz 800 mhz You can find skt 478 motherboards with processors for 30 quid INTEL D865GLC MOTHERBOARD + 2.4GHz INTEL CELERON CPU on eBay, also For Intel, Motherboards, Desktop PC Components, Computing (end time 02-Jun-09 12:37:57 BST) I picked up a 2 gig p4 mobo and ram for less than 20 . board and cpu £12 dell 478 motherboard an cpu with memory on eBay, also With Intel CPU, Motherboard CPU Bundle, Desktop PC Components, Computing (end time 05-Jun-09 14:18:46 BST) and another board and cpu for £20 IBM Socket 478 AGP 8X PC MB Motherboard With P4 1.5 CPU on eBay, also With Intel CPU, Motherboard CPU Bundle, Desktop PC Components, Computing (end time 15-Jun-09 16:44:37 BST) as I said unfortunately your stuff has little value

could be registry corruption in current user . I agree with the reformat but the user change is part of my process of elimination.

has the op tried setting up a different user just in case some user specific files were messed up when the spyware was having a fieldday?

My entertainment system. Blu ray player in the media centre pc to the right of the Sony Bravia 1080p 24P screen wired upto a Denon Home Theatre amp and 8 speakers :) Its also rigged upto a projector and just above the Sony is a 100" screen :) http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn319/zinglebarb/DSCF0253.jpg The other end of the room is my office ill take a full pic tomorrow in daylight

I do not see any valid reason for that machine to struggle. Did you say what version driver you installed? Change the driver to a few releases older perhaps

No its not bad but the AMD stuff is all made to work together nicely. I prefer the 4870/4890 over the GTX260 myself its all about choice.

he says in his first post in this thread his files are backed up ;)

is it fully patched and upto date? might be worth running scan disk on the drive. Press win key and r type cmd and hit enter Type chkdsk c: /r it will say the drive is busy check next reboot click y reboot the machien when it does not need to be used for a while and allow it to scan

yes you need a special disc thats coated for it .